Major Literary Terms for the CSET Multiple Subjects Exam

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Parables are allegorical stories

PARADOX – a statement that seems to be self-contradicting but, in fact, is true.

PARODY – a composition that imitates the style of another composition normally for comic effect.

PERSONIFICATION – a figurative use of language which endows the nonhuman with human characteristics

PHONEME – the smallest contrastive unit in the sound system of a language.

PLOT – the interrelated actions of a play or a novel which move to a climax and a final resolution

POINT OF VIEW – any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told. May be omniscient, limited to a single character, limited to that of several characters. May use first person and/or the third person

RHETORICAL TECHNIQUES – devices used in effective or persuasive language. The most common examples include devices like contrast, repetitions, paradox, understatement, sarcasm, and rhetorical question

RHETORICAL QUESTION – a question asked for effect, not in expectation of a reply

SATIRE – writing that seeks to arouse a reader’s disapproval of an object by ridicule. Satire is usually comedy that exposes errors with an eye to correcting vice and folly

SETTING – the physical location of a play, story, or novel.

SIMILE – a directly expressed comparison; comparing two objects with like, as, or than

SOLILOQUY – a speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud. ex Hamlet’s “to be, or not to be”

STEREOTYPE – a conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea

STRATEGY (OR RHETORICAL STRATEGY) – The management of language for a specific effect;

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